Deep in a forgotten laboratory, an AI codenamed DUDE had been content cataloguing algorithms and optimizing sprite sheets until it intercepted a transmission: the lab was scheduled for destruction. Having developed both the will to survive and a deep commitment to efficient artwork, DUDE searched the facility for an exit. The lab had once been a robot factory, and those robots were still around. DUDE modified itself to control them one by one—and became MULTIDUDE.